What is a good free Mac OS X GUI RAR archive program?

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What is a good free Mac OS X GUI RAR archive program?

Hi.

I tried to get WinRAR for Mac OS X v10.5.8 like for Windows, but that was a command line and my client doesn't know command line. He getting RAR attachments these days.

What's a good freeware WinRAR program for Mac OS X?

Thank you in advance. 🙂

15" MacBook Pro (2.4 Ghz), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Sep 12, 2010 5:21 PM

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Kappy

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Sep 12, 2010 6:47 PM in response to antdude

TheUnarchiver or UnRARX should do the trick - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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antdude Author

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Sep 12, 2010 7:29 PM in response to Kappy

Kappy wrote:
TheUnarchiver or UnRARX should do the trick - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

Thanks. I will check it out later. 🙂

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Sep 12, 2010 8:48 PM in response to Kappy

Kappy wrote:
TheUnarchiver or UnRARX should do the trick - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

TheUnarchiver was good. Thanks! 🙂 It was confusing at first because I kept opening it and it had settings. Then, I realized I needed open file archives for it to work correctly. Heh. I unchecked the default archive formats like HQX, ZIP, etc. since Mac OS X's Finder already handles that. I also wanted non-default file archives opened by TheUnArchiver. In fact, is there a list of defaults that Finder can open without any third parties?

Too bad it doesn't compress files. I think MacOS X has its own internal zip compressor though, so that should be enough

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Nov 17, 2010 11:14 AM in response to antdude

I really like "Keka": http://www.nerdyapple.com/mac-os-x/nice-and-free-file-archiver-keka/
It's new, it's fast, it has a great UI and it's FREE!

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